The issue at hand is really none of my business, so I will stay out of that. However I feel it necessary to add my
regarding Shemp and his integrity.
I have met alot of people in this business and I have yet to meet someone as genuinely kind-hearted and understanding as Shemp. I've met quite alot of very nice people, but Shemp goes above and beyond to be respectful and professional to everyone. In fact, it is indeed a rarity to find someone like him in any sector of business. Shemp is as good as gold, and to question his integrity is simply ludicrous. Tell me I'm kissing ass all you want, it won't bother me any. If stating my opinion about someone I think is a fantastic person through-and-through is kissing ass, then *SMOOOOOOOCH*! But I'd say the same thing about him if his site got 5 hits a month and he lived in a backwoods Ozark cabin with a run-down outhouse in the back and he spent his days picking boll weevils off the cotton plants and his nights picking the banjo with his drunk Uncle Willie. He's a darned nice person and I can't stand to see anyone say otherwise.
I know I'll piss some people off here, and I'm sorry. But fair is fair and I don't think most of the people berating him really know him at all. I highly suspect that if you did, you wouldn't say the things you're saying.